Corset stay



J. TAYLOR CORSET STAY April 19, 1932.

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Patented Apta 19, 1932 UNITED STATES JESSIE TAYLOR, OF INDIANAPGLIS, INDIANA CORSET sur Application mea september 5, 1931. serial No. 561,330.

This invention relates to stays for corsets and the manner of securing them to cloth casings in which the stays are usually assembled in a corset or other garment.

5 The object of the invention is to provide means whereby thread stitching placed to prevent longitudinal and other movement of the stay in the casing, will be distributed across the end of the stay and also along slots in the stay to contact different threads of the cloth at each stitch, thereby reducing the tendency of the cloth to tear at the stitches, and preventing the pushing of the end of the sta out of the casing through the cloth. c

further object is so to form the ends ofthe stay that stitching around the ends will,

be held from slipping off of the end and will be protected from wearing friction.

I accomplish the above and other objects which will hereinafter appear, by the means illustrated in they accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a stay. Fig. 2, a fragment in plan view of a stay 251 vand a corset and corset casing with the stay stitched to the corset and casing, the stay Vwithin the casing being shown by dotted lines.

Fig. 3 is a fragment `of one end of my improved stay, with stitching applied thereto to illustrate the manner of the stitching, the view being on an enlarged scale for clearer illustration and,

- Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section on the line` c 4 4 of Fig. 2, on an enlarged scalesimilar to that of Fig. 3.

Like characters ofcreference indicate like parts in the several views of the drawings.

vThestay 5lis of any suitable and usual material, such as steel, and is of the usual width, length and thickness. l v

The ends 6 and 7 of the stay-arenotched inwardly in a single shallow curve, substanr tially the reverse of the usuaI. -"outwardly. 4* bowed ends,'to blunt the ends ofthe stay so it will not so readily punch through the cloth of its casing under the pressure to which stays are subjected while being Worn. The inward- 0 ly curved ends also receive and distribute the stitches applied across the ends toI hold the stay from longitudinal displacement as will presently be described.

Formed in a mid line longitudinally of the stay are a series of spaced apart longitudinal slots 8, here shown as live in number at each end of the stay, but a greater or less number may be used without departing from the spirit of this invention.

A corset, or other garment, is designated by the reference character 9 and sewed to it 60 is a strip of cloth which forms a casing 10 with the member 9.

A stay 5 is slidingly inserted within the casing in the usual manner as shown in Fig.

2, and is there retained by a stitching of threads applied by the aid of a needle.

The'stitches 11 (see Fig. 2) are formed by passing a threaded needle through the fabric on both sides of the stay and through the top slot 8, at the top of the slot, and thence up and through both fabrics and over the end of the stay'at one end of the curve. The 'next stitch 11 is made by passing the needle through the same slot 8 but a little lower down instead of through the first hole, so as 76 to make the pull of the new stitch against lower threads in thefabrics of the corset and casing. This stitch crosses the end of the stay a little further from the end than the rst stitch to in like manner distribute the strain 30 over larger areas of the fabrics and to additional threads thereof. This variation of the passing of the needle through the fabrics isl continued for each stitch 11 until'the desired number have been made.

After the stitches at the ends ofthe stay f Vhat'febeen made-the needle is passed through the slots below going .from slot to slot successively to theendof the series and back? again, but'observingalways'to pass the nee- 9*?.

dle through different parts ofthe fabrics instead' of through the yformer holes. It is to provide for such passage of the needle through different parts of the fabric each time lthat the stay is provided with slots 9 instead of round holes.

The depth of the notch in the end of the stay may be varied as also may the sizeA of the slots, their distance apart and the number of them without departing from the spirit of 10 p :the invention, and a stay of this character may be used in other garments besides corsets.

Having thus fully described my inven- -tion what I claim as new and wish to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. A corset stay having incurved ends andl one or more elongated slots longitudinally of and at the middle of the stay adjacent the ends, cloth on each side of' the stay, and stitches through the slot next to the end and over the end, the passage of the stitches through the cloth being at different places for each passage. v

2. A corset stay having incurved ends and a plurality of slots elongated longitudinally of and at the middle of the stay adjacent the ends, cloth on each side of the stay, stitches through the slot next to the end and over the end and stitches from each slot to the next, the passage of the stitches through the cloth being at diierentv places for each pasals sage and at different distances in the slots from the end of the stafy.

In testimony whereo I affix my signature.

JESSIE TAYLOR. 

